[foxyv]

I still can't figure it out. Why do people still use auto-generated Getters and Setters instead of just making the field public? What is the advantage of using Beans these days? I've never run into a situation where I wanted my getter/setter to do something other than return/set the value.

[lunias]

Mostly just convention, but it's also a more flexible pattern. A public instance variable cannot have public reads, but private writes for instance.

There is also the case of derived properties. e.g.

LocalDateTime ranAt

LocalDateTime finishedAt

getRuntime() { ... }